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MARCUS A. MILLER, OF BINGHAMTON, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE NINETEENHUNDRED IVASHER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BENCH? SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,404, datedAugust 22, 1899.

Application filed March 27, 1899. n'erial No. 710,641. (No model.)

1b all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARCUS A. MILLER, of Binghamton, in the county ofBroome, in the State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovementsin Benches, of which the following, taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in benches for supporting tubs.

My object is to produce afolding bench adapted to support a tub and atthe same time provide means for looking it to the tub of awashing-machine, so that the clothes from the washing-machine may bepassed through the wringer into the tub upon the bench, my object beingto provide it with a vertically-adjustable locking device, so that thetub of machines of various heights may be secured thereto. I havingfound by experience that all of the machines are not ofa uniform height,and in the event of their being so the floor is not always even or ofthe same pitch, so that it becomes essential that some provision be madeto overcome this condition of things.

My further object is to produce a bench which may be folded so as tooccupy a minimum amount of space when it is desired to inventionconsists in several new and novel features of construction andoperation, which are hereinafter described, and specifically set forthin the claims hereunto annexed. It is constructed as follows, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a sideView of the bench complete folded. Fig. 2 is an end view of the benchextended ready for use. Fig. 3 is a top plan View thereof. Fig. 4 is asection on line X X in Fig. 3, but showing the'tub of the machineincross-section and showing how it is held in position. Fig. 5 is a Viewon line y y in Fig. 2. ing device detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

care the standards, suitably mounted upon bases a, which may be providedwith casters under one or both ends or not, as desired.

b is a cross-bar secured across the top and serves two purposes, one ofwhich is to pro- Fig. 6 is a detail of the lock- 'vide a suitable meansfor sec uring the wringer and the other to provide means against whichthe upper edge of the tub of the washing-machine is held when lockingthe bench to the machine.

b is a rotating shaft mounted between the uprights,'as shown, and havingupon one end a ratchet-wheel c and a hand-wheel 0. Upon the shaftb arepivotally'mounted and adapted to swing vertically frame-bars (Z. At thefree end of each are hinged legs d. The framebars 61 are provided withcross-rounds e and e, and f and f, respectively, are rounds mounted inthe legs d and uprights a, as shown, and serve the double purpose of notonly giving strength to the frame formed by the legs and the uprights,but also serve as bars with which swinging braces Z and Z engage tocomplete the frame forming the bench and which supports the tub. Thebracesl and Z are swingingly mounted upon the central round 6 and haverecesses 02 adjacent their ends to engage with the rounds fand f, sothat the legs are not only prevented from being forced outward by thestrength which is in the central round 6, but the central round e issupported by the brace Z, connecting with the round f between thestandards.

When I desire to use the bench in connection with a washing-machine inwhich the tub may be mounted a little higher or a little lower than theframe of the bench, I place the upper edge of the tub A of thewashingmachine (in case the tub is mounted higher) beneath. the loweredge of the bar I), as shown, and the lower end'of the stave rests uponthe hook 0' of the eccentrically-mounted cam 0, which in turn is rigidlysecured to the shaft 17. By the handpiece 0 I then turn the shaft andhook upon the cam and force the tub up against the bar I), where it issecurely held by V the gravity-pawl p, engaging the ratchet c,

cam 0, and then rotate the cam sufilciently t0 shaft for the purpose ofengaging the bottom cause the hook 0' to engage the lower end and 1 andthe cross-bar, and means for locking said inner face of the stave, asshown in Fig. -1

The cam is rotated until the tub is clamped r is a hook of the tub, andlooking it between the cam shaft.

2. The herein-described bench, comprising uprights, having a cross-barsecured to the upperends, an intermediate shaft, frame-bars as the sameresult can be accomplished with a cam without a hook, although not sowell.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1S

1. The herein-described bench, comprising uprights, having a cross-barsecured to the upper ends, an intermediate shaft, frame-bars rotatablymounted on said shaft, legs hinged to said bars, and auxiliary braceshinged to the frame, and detachably engaging the standards and the legs,an eccentrically-mounted cam having a hook secured to said intermediateI rotatably mounted on said shaft, legs hinged to said bars, andauxiliary braces hinged to the 1 frame,and detachably engaging thestandards and the legs, an eccentrically-mounted cam secured to saidintermediate shaft for the purpose of engaging the bottom of the tub,and locking it between the cam and the cross-bar, and means for lockingsaid roller.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of March,1899.

MARCUS A. MILLER. Witnesses:

E. C. D. BLAVAN, ROLLIN W. MEEKER.

